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    CHEO’s Critical Care Transport Team, a lifeline for children in crisis, has now extended its life-saving expertise to older patients. 

    With a team of specialized nurses and respiratory therapists on call 24/7, they traverse vast distances by ambulance, helicopter, or plane, bringing urgent care to communities across eastern and northern Ontario and western Quebec.

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    For some children and teens, school breaks like winter or summer offer a much-needed chance to unwind. For others, these times can bring unexpected challenges.

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    Parents experience sudden trauma, shock, fear and sadness when a baby requires intensive care immediately after birth, and they have to face many losses.

    That first cuddle.

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    CHEO is expanding its use of virtual reality (VR) to help children and youth with cerebral palsy who struggle with anxiety when receiving intramuscular-administered medication, part of a multi-site study on the benefits of VR as a distraction tool.

    Kids with cerebral palsy (CP), the most common childhood motor disability, face higher-than-normal muscle tone.

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    Following months of construction, the newly renovated CHEO MRI suite is up and running, offering new décor, enhanced space to improve the patient experience and eventually shorten wait times.

    The new suite is also home to a new GE SIGNA Artist Evo MRI magnet, which offers more accurate and timely diagnosis, leveraging innovative new AI Deep learning technology scanning through the new higher resolution images.

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    For Wyatt Scott, September brings more than just the usual back-to-school jitters. 

    At 11 years old, he grapples with unique physical and emotional hurdles stemming from brainstem dysgenesis, a rare genetic condition that impacts his central nervous system.

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    An Ottawa family was able to attend a momentous, once-in-a-lifetime event thanks to the can-do attitude and swift action by a CHEO social worker and her team.

    Atreus Samra, who just turned six, was recently diagnosed with autism.

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    Meet Ashley Hilliard, Recreation Therapist at CHEO.

    For Ashley, CHEO is a special place.

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    Meet Chloe Soleimani, Service Planning Coordinator with Urgent Response Services

    In February 2010, Chloe Soleimani took her first walk through CHEO’s pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) as she prepared to begin a new job as a clerk in the unit.

    That day, and that role, changed her life.

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    Meet Michelle Vander Meer, Health Care Aide on Inpatient Surgery

    Michelle first came to know CHEO through her older brother. Throughout his teen years, he had multiple surgeries and Michelle would come to visit him in hospital to brighten his day.

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